Coming soon...

Thirty-nine teams will be taking part in the 2010 Young Local Authority of the Year, the annual competition for staff working in local government throughout the UK. Photographs of the teams are starting to arrive – keep them coming!

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Kris Anderson is 2010
Young Thinker
of the Year

Kris Anderson, a lecturer in English literature at the Open University and a tutor in English at Oxford University, has won the prestigious title UK and Ireland Young Thinker of the Year 2010 for 'an exceptional paper' on the nature of patriotism in the modern world. The paper earned full marks for content.
     Kris is originally from Portland, Oregon, and has lived in Britain for eight years. She went to Vermont for her undergraduate degree in music history and English literature and afterwards moved to Oxford for a masters and then a doctorate in English literature. She was nominated for the 2009-10 Young UK and Ireland Programme by the charity Dignity in Dying, for whom she worked.
     The runner-up Young Thinker of the Year is Neelaksh Sadhoo, a research scientist in acoustics at the National Physical Laboratory, whose paper on English libel law was described by the adjudicator as 'a superb forensic analysis'.
     Highly commended in third place was Emma Grant from the London Borough of Hillingdon, while Louise Wilson from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform in Ireland was commended in fourth place.
     The 10 finalists were selected from an original field of 179.

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On course for Public Sector Programme

The first bookings have arrived for the 2010 Young Public Sector Programme, at Lancaster in late May. The event is open to government departments, public bodies, executive agencies and the NHS. Anyone in
the early stages of his or her career is eligible to take part.

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On course for Universities' Young Thinker

A new event, the UK Universities' Young Thinker of the Year competition,
is being staged at Lancaster in June. It will bring together academic staff working in university departments across the country.

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Updated on 10 March 2010